Houstonian Sam Bennett walks past a "Wall of Guns" being raffled off by the NRA at the George R. Brown Convention Center.

Houstonian Sam Bennett walks past a "Wall of Guns" being raffled...

The funerals in Newtown were barely over before the talk turned to guns. And what followed as the months dragged on was a ritualistic Washington dance that started with a presidential exhortation to do something and an anti-climactic vote to do nothing.

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